Exhibition "From censorship and samizdat to press freedom"

October 5 at 18:00 at the "International Memorial" (Karetny Ryad, 5/10) will open the exhibition "From censorship and samizdat to freedom of the press. USSR, 1917-1990".

The exhibition was prepared by "Memorial" together with the State Public Historical Library of Russia.

From the announcement:

"The exhibition is dedicated primarily to those who in the post-Stalin era resisted the lack of freedom, claimed this freedom without permission, decided to be free in an unfree country. The vast majority of the exhibition's characters paid for the creation and distribution of uncensored texts with years of prisons, camps, psychiatric hospitals, exile. For some to be free - cost a life.

The era of "classic samizdat" lasted about 30 years. In the second half of the 1980s, it was replaced by samizdat of the perestroika era, a mass phenomenon that covered all segments of the population and regions of the country. The seventy-year reign of censorship in the USSR ended in the summer of 1990, when it was legally abolished.

After the opening of the exhibition, a lecture by the researcher of uncensored literature of the second half of the 20th century, publisher Vladimir Orlov “Finds in the Affairs of A. I. Ginzburg (1964 and 1967) in the archive of the FSB of the Russian Federation” was given. Among the unique finds: unknown letters from A. Ginzburg, samizdat literary almanacs (including the Anthology of Soviet Pathology), a poem by S. Chudakov, recordings of home concerts of bards in the 1960s, social and political documents, and much more.